Presents a class with the Philosophy professor at Yale, Shelly Kagan about death. In this lecture the professor continues to discuss about the badness of death, showing opinions of some contemporary philosophers, such as Tom Nagle, Fred Feldman, and Derek Parfit. Discusses the subject of immortality and concludes with suppose of Bernard William that no kind of human life can continue to be enjoyable and attractive for eternity

Issue Date:

19-Jun-2010

19-Jun-2010

19-Jun-2010

29-Mar-2007

29-Mar-2010

Publisher:

Yale University, Open Yale Courses

Keywords:

Immortality

Philosophy

Educação Superior::Ciências Humanas::Filosofia::Metafísica

Metaphysics

Notes:

To learn about the philosophical concept of death

Credits:

Duration: 50 min, 34 s. To hear this resource its necessary the instalation of Quick time. Available at: <http://www.apple.com/pt/quicktime/>

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